F8Test1 freezing Real Soon Now.

[Will Woods]

The Fedora 8 Test 1 freeze is today. Whee! If you are able, doing some
test installs from rawhide would be very helpful.

We've got a tracker bug for issues that need to be fixed before the
release:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=F8Test1

There are a couple of known issues that haven't yet been reported:

* boot.iso doesn't boot properly on i386
  - ppc is ok, x86_64 is being checked.
* firstboot crashes
  - you can still log in as root and create a user.

These will be added to the tracker bug shortly. I've also just created
the test matrix:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/8/Test1TreeTesting

which we'll be updating as we test things. Feel free to claim some
things to test or report your test results here.

-w

[Chris Lumens]

>  * firstboot crashes
>    - you can still log in as root and create a user. 
This is not a bug in firstboot:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247863

- Chris

[Mike Chambers]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 16:41 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>  The Fedora 8 Test 1 freeze is today. Whee! If you are able, doing
> some
>  test installs from rawhide would be very helpful.
>  
>  We've got a tracker bug for issues that need to be fixed before the
>  release:
>  
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=F8Test1
>  
>  There are a couple of known issues that haven't yet been reported:
>  
>  * boot.iso doesn't boot properly on i386
>    - ppc is ok, x86_64 is being checked. 
Unless you are able to create an iso from rawhide, how can you do a test
install if boot.iso doesn't work with i386?  Obviously besides the ppc
and other arches.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"Best little town on Earth!"

[Justin Conover]

On 7/24/07, Mike Chambers <mike(a)miketc.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 16:41 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>  > The Fedora 8 Test 1 freeze is today. Whee! If you are able, doing some
>  > test installs from rawhide would be very helpful.
>  >
>  > We've got a tracker bug for issues that need to be fixed before the
>  > release:
>  >
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=F8Test1
>  >
>  > There are a couple of known issues that haven't yet been reported:
>  >
>  > * boot.iso doesn't boot properly on i386
>  >   - ppc is ok, x86_64 is being checked.
>
>  Unless you are able to create an iso from rawhide, how can you do a test
>  install if boot.iso doesn't work with i386?  Obviously besides the ppc
>  and other arches.
>
>  --
>  Mike Chambers
>  Madisonville, KY
>
>  "Best little town on Earth!"
>
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I tried x86_64 two days ago and it failed with the same boot up problem as
i386.

[Chuck Anderson]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 05:08:12PM -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
>  > * boot.iso doesn't boot properly on i386
>  >   - ppc is ok, x86_64 is being checked.
>  
>  Unless you are able to create an iso from rawhide, how can you do a test
>  install if boot.iso doesn't work with i386?  Obviously besides the ppc
>  and other arches. 
Do a network install using isolinux/vmlinuz and isolinux/initrd.img on 
an existing GRUB install or use PXE.

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:08:12 -0500
Mike Chambers <mike(a)miketc.com&gt; wrote:

>  Unless you are able to create an iso from rawhide, how can you do a
>  test install if boot.iso doesn't work with i386?  Obviously besides
>  the ppc and other arches. 
The boot.iso problem isn't total.  All of my machines and qemu boot
just fine with boot.iso.  It seems to be a small subset of machines.
Will is working on narrowing down where it stopped working so that we
can see what changed.  A bisect of the trees if you will.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora

[Will Woods]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:56 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:08:12 -0500
>  Mike Chambers <mike(a)miketc.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  > Unless you are able to create an iso from rawhide, how can you do a
>  > test install if boot.iso doesn't work with i386?  Obviously besides
>  > the ppc and other arches.
>  
>  The boot.iso problem isn't total.  All of my machines and qemu boot
>  just fine with boot.iso.  It seems to be a small subset of machines.
>  Will is working on narrowing down where it stopped working so that we
>  can see what changed.  A bisect of the trees if you will. 
Right - so far it only affects my Dell machines - an Intel developer
system we tested works fine.

I've narrowed the problem down to somewhere between July 15 (which
works) and July 20 (which doesn't). 

Anyway, yes, boot.iso will probably work for you, and if it doesn't, you
can copy the vmlinuz/initrd to your pre-existing /boot partition and add
an entry for them in grub.conf. They'll boot just fine that way.

-w

[Will Woods]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 11:04 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>  On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:56 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:08:12 -0500
>  > Mike Chambers <mike(a)miketc.com&gt; wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Unless you are able to create an iso from rawhide, how can you do a
>  > > test install if boot.iso doesn't work with i386?  Obviously besides
>  > > the ppc and other arches.
>  > 
>  > The boot.iso problem isn't total.  All of my machines and qemu boot
>  > just fine with boot.iso.  It seems to be a small subset of machines.
>  > Will is working on narrowing down where it stopped working so that we
>  > can see what changed.  A bisect of the trees if you will.
>  
>  Right - so far it only affects my Dell machines - an Intel developer
>  system we tested works fine.
>  
>  I've narrowed the problem down to somewhere between July 15 (which
>  works) and July 20 (which doesn't).  
Update: I've narrowed it down to the July 17th rawhide. So something in
this changelog broke booting:

http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-July/msg00374.html

I'm guessing kernel, but binutils changes can be tricky too..

-w

[cornel panceac]

install report

i've installed 7.89 using boot.iso (i386) . since i have a slow connection
and i had not much time, i've installed only a basic system (no x, etc).
after, i've groupinstalled x and gnome. i've tried several times servic
firstboot start but it freezes as reported above, and i give up. one
interesting thing to note: after 'useradd guzu' , guzu was unable to log
into x, pretending that /home/guzu does not exist, even if it exists and the
reights were just fine. i've removed the user, logged into gnome using root,
added user guzu using s-c-u and after it worked fine. yum-updatesd's gui
(whatever it's name) worked slow or freezes (nobody will ever know since i
stopped it :)) so i fall back to plain yum where you can at least aproximate
mirror speed. i've not seen other issues till now.

my smolt profile:
http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=edf37816-4da4-42e2-ac6b-48e08714...

thnx
waitin for the t1 :)

2007/7/25, Will Woods <wwoods(a)redhat.com&gt;:
>  On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 11:04 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>  > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:56 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:08:12 -0500
>  > > Mike Chambers < mike(a)miketc.com&gt; wrote:
>  > >
>  > > > Unless you are able to create an iso from rawhide, how can you do a
>  > > > test install if boot.iso doesn't work with i386?  Obviously besides
>  > > > the ppc and other arches.
>  > >
>  > > The boot.iso problem isn't total.  All of my machines and qemu boot
>  > > just fine with boot.iso.  It seems to be a small subset of machines.
>  > > Will is working on narrowing down where it stopped working so that we
>  > > can see what changed.  A bisect of the trees if you will.
>  >
>  > Right - so far it only affects my Dell machines - an Intel developer
>  > system we tested works fine.
>  >
>  > I've narrowed the problem down to somewhere between July 15 (which
>  > works) and July 20 (which doesn't).
>
>  Update: I've narrowed it down to the July 17th rawhide. So something in
>  this changelog broke booting:
>
>  http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-July/msg00374.html
>
>  I'm guessing kernel, but binutils changes can be tricky too..
>
>  -w
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